5 Benefits of Choosing Leather Furniture Over Fabric Upholstery

Leather furniture is luxurious, gorgeous, and remarkably durable. It’s also surprisingly easy to clean. Like a fine wine, quality leather furniture actually improves with age! That means you’ll still be enjoying your leather furniture last past the time you would have had to replace worn or outdated upholstered furniture. Unlike upholstery fabrics, timeless leather will never go out of style!

Leather Isn’t Always Brown

If you think leather furniture is only available in tan or brown, you’re in for an eye-opening surprise! Of course, we have just about any shade of brown you could want along with black and white. However, don’t stop there. Our furniture store in Clearwater carries leather furniture in an array of luscious colors. Rich red, rosy pink, spicy pumpkin, buttery yellow, seafoam green, deep blue, trendy gray… These are just some of the colors you’ll find when you shop for leather living room furniture at our Clearwater location!

Leather Furniture Is Comfortable

Leather feels as good as it looks. There’s just nothing else that can compare with the sumptuous coziness of leather. It may be elegant enough for 5-star hotel lobbies but it’s also one of the most comfortable pieces of furniture on which you’ll ever sit! Leather just seems to envelop you in comfort in a way that fabric upholstery can never match.

It’s Easy to Clean

If you have young children, messy teens, or pets in your home, you know how hard they can be on your furniture. Fortunately, leather furniture makes cleaning up spills easy. No more dragging out that bulky upholstery cleaner when those inevitable spills happen. Simply wipe up the mess as quickly as possible. Then follow a leather expert’s recommendations based on the type of spill or stain.

Animal hair won’t embed itself in your leather furniture like it does in upholstery, either. A quick swipe with a damp dusting cloth or the upholstery brush attachment on the vacuum is all you need to make it vanish! We generally advise a soft, damp cloth for dusting leather furniture. However, hair clings to a damp paper towel just as well as it would to a damp cloth. If you use paper towels, you can just throw them away along with all of that pet hair when you’re done cleaning!

Leather Is Better for Allergy Sufferers

Your leather sofa won’t hold onto pollen, animal dander, dust mites, or other allergens like a fabric sofa will. Unlike fabric upholstery where they become embedded, there’s no place for allergens to hide on allergy-friendly leather furniture.  It’s easy to simply whisk them away with a damp dusting cloth.

Leather Furniture Has a Long Lifespan 

Take care of fine leather like you do your own hands. Keeping it clean, avoiding temperature extremes, protecting it from bright sunlight, and moisturizing it regularly will keep your leather furniture looking its best for many years to come.

Just as you choose a good quality hand cream to moisturize your hands, you’ll want to choose a good leather conditioner for your furniture. The best products don’t contain either wax or silicone. Both of those ingredients can make your leather permanently sticky! If your leather furniture is exposed to sunlight, you may want to choose a leather conditioner with sunscreen. Just like your skin, too much sun will cause your leather furniture to prematurely age!

• Dusting your leather furniture once a week with a soft, damp cloth is usually enough to keep it looking its best. White microfiber cloths dampened with distilled water are recommended for the best results.
• At least twice a year, use a leather cleaner to give it a good deep cleaning.
• After that deep cleaning, treat your leather furniture to a really good leather conditioner. Always make sure you follow the manufacturers’ instructions for the particular cleaning and conditioning products you’re using. If your house is dry, you may want to condition more often.

Note: Household cleaners are not meant for use on leather and may damage it. Only use products specially formulated for use on leather. Your leather furniture will thank you!

Learning More About Luxurious Leather Furniture

As your go-to furniture store in Clearwater, we’re here to help you decide if leather furniture is the right choice for your home. We offer 5 convenient locations where you can check out our stunning collections of leather furniture in person. Questions? Contact us and we’ll be happy to answer them for you! Our ‘Leaxperts‘ are fluent in everything leather and can help you find leather furniture that perfectly suits both your home and your lifestyle.